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In this week?s PEOPLE cover story, Mariah Carey reveals for the first time her battle with bipolar disorder.
Although she was first diagnosed in 2001 (when she was hospitalized for a physical and mental breakdown), ?I didn?t want to believe it,? the superstar singer-songwriter tells PEOPLE editor in chief Jess Cagle.
Carey says she finally sought treatment recently after ?the hardest couple of years I?ve been through? ? years of professional upheaval, an E! reality show and romantic drama.
?Until recently I lived in denial and isolation and in constant fear someone would expose me,? she says. ?It was too heavy a burden to carry and I simply couldn?t do that anymore. I sought and received treatment, I put positive people around me and I got back to doing what I love ? writing songs and making music.?

One of the most successful singers of all time, with 18 No. 1 hits and more than 200 million records sold, Carey spent many of her years in the spotlight suffering in silence.
She is now in therapy and taking medication for bipolar II disorder, which involves periods of depression as well as hypomania (less severe than the mania associated with bipolar I disorder, but can still cause irritability, sleeplessness and hyperactivity).

?I?m actually taking medication that seems to be pretty good. It?s not making me feel too tired or sluggish or anything like that. Finding the proper balance is what is most important,? Carey tells PEOPLE.

?For a long time I thought I had a severe sleep disorder,? continues Carey, now back in the studio working on an album due later this year. ?But it wasn?t normal insomnia and I wasn?t lying awake counting sheep. I was working and working and working ? I was irritable and in constant fear of letting people down. It turns out that I was experiencing a form of mania. Eventually I would just hit a wall. I guess my depressive episodes were characterized by having very low energy. I would feel so lonely and sad ? even guilty that I wasn?t doing what I needed to be doing for my career.?
Carey, who co-parents her 6-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan with ex-husband Nick Cannon, says she decided to come forward because ?I?m just in a really good place right now, where I?m comfortable discussing my struggles with bipolar II disorder. I?m hopeful we can get to a place where the stigma is lifted from people going through anything alone. It can be incredibly isolating. It does not have to define you and I refuse to allow it to define me or control me.?

[Kaeli.]

Damn I didn't know queen was bipolar

Kind of explains a few things, though.

[Admin]

Aww Mimi
Good that she's open about it now

[Barbie Dangerous]

I knew something was up, nice to see she?s so comfortable speaking about it. Come thru Bipo Kwee!

[BigDawg]

Glad she is finally speaking out about it

[LOONA.]

Crazy and alcoholic?

Yikes

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a drunk bi polar mess

Im calling CPS

[Nine]

omg Queens



So glad she's got in under control now.

[#Mu7]

People with imense talent are always so multi dimensional!

To be honest she has done a phenomenal job at hiding it!!!

Also those antidepressants are probably why she gained all that damn weight at first. She probably needed her dose balanced. She seems to be better and glowing self help is amazing

[Zabi.]

Another talented artist who has bipolar.

Kanye
Azealia
Mariah

This talented ass list kinda slays omf

[Purple Moon]

Yes queen

[Hatsumomo]

Get well and stay well queen. It's hard out here we are all on pills and prayers.

[pop]

Her ass is not bipolar... I guess they need a face for it ,,, but she's definitely borderline Personality,,, now Tina Campbell ass is bipolar   

[Freemala Harris]

Aww Mimi
Good that she's open about it now

[fresh]

my queen

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